In five years, the Karnataka government spent Rs 93.54 crore to check the quality of water under the National Rural Drinking Water programme.

BHOPAL: As the temperature soars, city hospitals are reporting a spurt in heat related illnesses.

For years more than 400 slum clusters of Ahmedabad have been plagued by problems of water contamination and diseases every summer.

The district administration and district health wing have initiated steps to prevent any possible outbreak of cholera in Kuttanad.

More than 6 million people across Angola, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe are at risk of severe food shortages because of repeated cycles of drought and flooding, the global humanitarian body IFRC sai

The 1.5 lakh inhabitants of Dhaka's biggest slum Korail Bosti are dependent on illegal and often dirty water that comes through a small, aboveground rubber tube.

The supply of contaminated water to residents of Srinivagilu Tank Bed Layout in Koramangala for the last few months has left many people reeling under the effects of water-borne diseases such as typhoid, cholera and gastroenteritis.

Dr P M Mathew, a professor from Christ University and a resident of the layout, who is recovering from an attack of typhoid in December, told Deccan Herald, that water supplied contains vast quantities of pollutants.

The source has been identified as a food seller who caught cholera during a previous outbreak in eastern Cuba